Seasonal Registration

[alans1100]

I rang up our rego office this morning and put the car, bike and two trailers onto seasonal registration since other than the bike don't get used all year.

The other side of this is since SA went to not issuing rego labels is that they're asking for plates to be returned 90 days after being out of rego. Their main reason being that someone might pinch your plates and use them in a crime. I doubt if it would matter to anyone looking for plates whether the vehicle is registered or not as they'd just take them anyway.

So being SA and supposedly cash poor I see it as a grab for cash. Return the plates and when you want to re-register then pay for another set later. They also charge an extra admin fee of $15 for updating expiry date and going onto seasonal rego avoids that little fee. It won't make much difference to the bike and trailer but the car really only gets used in the winter and I can't tow one trailer unless the car is registered. So 3 months rego every year makes sense for them.

https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/transport-travel-and-motoring/motoring/vehicles-and-registration/vehicle-registration/seasonal-registration

Seasonal registration caters for those situations where you only wish to use a vehicle for a part of the year.  Examples of this may be a farm truck with a Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM) that is used during harvest, or a caravan used during the summer months.

Only the standard administration fee is payable providing the registration is renewed after 90 days and within 12 months of the previous expiry date.

[Nigel]

Interesting concept.......................................

[alans1100]

Interesting concept.......................................

We've had the system in place for years........SA never really worried about plates before as they stayed with the vehicle.

[jimwilly]

I agree with the cash grab idea. make people keep everything registered and make it expensive and a pain in the backside if they
don't. S.A.'s economy is well and truely on the skids, the government will try and get money any way they can, emergency services levy
a good example.

[johnnyYTED]

 
I believe that SA is the only STate that offers this seasonal rego. my trailer is the only rego that I'd use this  with, but I like the concept, excluding the hand in plates each time part.

[Brock]

I never know when I need to use the car trailer or bike, so that wouldnt work for me, besides dont have seasonal rego in WA

[saaz]

In the ACT you can register for 3 months or multiples of that, which makes some sense for bikes in winter here. So if I register online before 12 months is up I have 3 months on the ST1100 without having to get an inspection. So come 15 November it will be on the road for 3 months  and I will shift the time period into earlier in the year when a few more events are on.

[alans1100]

I never know when I need to use the car trailer or bike, so that wouldnt work for me, besides dont have seasonal rego in WA

Neither do we but if we need to it's a simple matter of going on line and paying the three months rego (used to be 6 or 12 then it went to 3,6,9or 12 months then they dropped the 6 and 9 month).

From my short few years (2007-2010) in WA the girls in the Karratha rego office couldn't believe that you didn't have to hand the plates in after 90 days of being out of rego. We are now advised to hand them back quoting some rule from way back in the 1950s which no one knew about.

This year they added the "you might be fined if you don't hand them back" on the letter they send after 3 months. Going over to seasonal rego just avoids all that which is something we didn't have to worry about until really the last year or so.